Pokémon Go is getting gamers outside, but not all gamers. Tales of trespassing, fence-jumping and brave jaunts through tough terrain to catch Pokémon have bolstered the hit mobile game’s popularity among able-bodied players. Oh oh! Physically handicapped fans of the…
Tag: Political Correctness
Leeches…
A teenager is suing the Met Police and Islington council for repeatedly holding him in a cell overnight. The 14-year-old’s case is being brought by charity Just For Kids Law, which argued that the boy was kept in the “unsuitable”…
From Trump to Frexit — change is coming
The weekend marked an ominous turn in Donald Trump’s campaign. The violence in Chicago on Friday evening at the University of Illinois (UIC) Pavilion and surrounding area — including the Eisenhower Expressway — caused the billionaire to cancel his rally.…
Qwabe The Qwybaby…
The Oxford law student who accused his own university of normalising and propping-up the “existence of systemic racism” has said he is growing tired of the ‘why go to Oxford?’ question being asked by the public. Awwww, diddums! Did you…
It’s The Readers Who’ll Decide, Love…
Dreda Say Mitchell on the apparent demand that black authors write only about black issues: It’s clear from James’s writing that he’s not just a “writer of colour” either – no black author is. If he wants to insist on…
No Saucy Front Covers Please, We’re British!
When Jilly Cooper’s seminal “bonkbuster” novel Riders was re-released earlier this year with a “sanitised” cover, it was decried as a symbol of political correctness gone too far. Now, however, the best-selling author has disclosed that she ordered it to…
Oh, Please! Pull The Other One…
Officers arrested 16 people living on the site in connection with the production of cannabis and three others in connection with separate offences. They said a ‘small minority of individuals’ with links to the site had been involved. Right, right.…
I Thought Only The Nazis Banned Books…?
…guess we now have politicians who want to ban books by Nazis: Scottish Labour MP Thomas Docherty is calling for a national debate on whether the sale of Adolf Hitler’s “repulsive” manifesto Mein Kampf should be prohibited in the UK.…
Sorry, UKIP, You Don’t Get To Run With The Hare And Hunt With The Hounds…
…just like you don’t get to impose necessary restrictions on halal slaughter and let shechita slaughter slip by unnoticed: …Mr Agnew said the policy was not meant to target shechita. “This isn’t aimed at you – it’s aimed elsewhere –…
No, There’s Something Else That Makes This ‘Particularly Reprehensible’…
Chief Inspector Martin Brennan, from West Midlands Police’s Serious and Organised Crime Unit, said the cars and greed gave the men away. He said: ‘This was a highly-organised and well-orchestrated criminal network but what makes it particularly reprehensible is that…
Clear As Mud..?
Ofsted chief Sir Michael Wilshaw has said head teachers faced with equal candidates for a teaching post should consider “positive discrimination”. The head of the education watchdog told LBC Radio that the teaching staff of schools should reflect the ethnic…
Why Does Anyone Listen To These People?
Video games are one of the most vibrant cultural forms of the 21st century – but they have an image problem. *sighs* Guess who? The industry is seen as a boys’ club, a production line of games written by young…
Gaby Hinsliff Fails To Recognise Who Is Doing The Bullying…
Nobody should be bullied into wearing something to prove their allegiance to a country, whether it’s a bracelet or a red poppy or a saltire in face paint. She’s referring to the ribbing Miliband got for not wearing the latest…
Oxford Dodged A Bullet Here…
Helen Price, writing in the ‘Guardian’ last year, about turning down Oxford to go to Yale: Cash-starved UK universities cannot compete with the funding opportunities offered by US colleges, whose wealthy alumni throw donations at their alma maters. Yale’s $19.4…
Mary Brandon – Feminism’s Answer To Timothy Treadwell…
In a Facebook post which exposes the darker side of the annual street party “supposed to be about community and good vibes”… Ahahahahahaha! Is it really? Pull the other one! … Mary Brandon said she spent nine hours at hospital…